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Table of Contents:
Table of ContentsGlossary ... 13Foreword ... 17I. Th e Kurds in Turkey... 23Background ...21State of Emergency ...21Village Guards & Gendarmerie ...23Th e Kurdish Regions (Southeast Turkey) ...25Torture ...26Number of cases ...26Methods of Torture ...26Victims ...27High Security Prisons ...28Incommunicado Detention ...30Impunity ...31II. Legal Reforms ... 332003 Reforms ...34Current Domestic Legal Framework ...36Recent Reforms ...38Regressive Reform ...39Continuing Abuses ...40Incommunicado Detention ...42Reduction in Length of Detention ...46Use of Statements Elicited under Torture ...47Blindfolding ...49Th e Role of Doctors ...49Lawyers...55Human Rights Boards and Committees ...57Human Rights Defenders ...58Judicial Reform and Modernisation ...59Delays in Court Proceedings ...61Prison Reform ...63Hunger Strikes ...67Impunity ...68Th e Role of Prosecutors ...71Th reshold of Investigation ...72III. EU Accession ... 75Th e Debate over Accession ...75Turkey's Future ...78IV. Sexual Violence Against Female Detaineesand the Abuse of Children in Detention ... 83Background to Gender Discrimination ...83Violence against women ...84Female Detainees ...85'Honour' ...88'Honour' Killings ...88Rape ...90Virginity Testing ...91Reporting Sexual Violence ...94Medical Evidence ...94Th e Abuse of Children in Detention ...95Conditions of juvenile detention ...97V. ECtHR Article 3 Cases ... 99Court JurisprudenceTurkey's Execution of ECtHR Judgments ...108Friendly Settlements ...115VI. Reporting Torture ...121Combating Impunity ...121Remedies ...122Defi ning Torture ...123Ill-treatment ...125When is Torture Likely to Occur ...126Reporting Allegations at the International Level ...126Europe ...127OSCE ...127CPT ...127AN ONGOING PRACTICE: TORTURE IN TURKEY11Council of Europe ...128ECtHR ...128European Union ...128International ...128Treaty Bodies ...129CAT ...129HRC...130Non-Treaty Bodies ...131UN Human Rights Council ...131Extra-Conventional Mechanisms ...131Special Rapporteurs ...131Relevant Country Mandates ...131Other Th ematic Mandates ...1311503 Procedure ...132Reporting Allegations at the National Level ...132Judges and Prosecutors ...133Th e Law of Responsibility ...134State Conduct ...134Th e Right to Reparation ...135VII. Applicable International Law and Human Rights Norms ...139International Prohibition ...139Basic Principles on Conditions of Detention and Rights of Detainees ...141Notifi cation of Rights ...141Incommunicado Detention ...141Notifi cation of Detention ...142Access to a Lawyer ...143Access to a Doctor ...144Medical Documentation of Torture ...144Limits on Interrogation ...146Individual's right to make a complaint and state's duty to investigate ...147Women in Detention ...148Use of Offi cially Recognised places of Detention ...149Humane Conditions ...149Th e UN Convention against Torture ...10Th e European Convention on Human Rights ...151Th e ICCPR ...152Other Safeguards ...153KHRP 200712VIII. Recommendations ...157IX. Conclusion ...165Appendix I ...169Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentAppendix II ...183Optional Protocol to the Convention against Tortureand Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentAppendix III...197Principles on the Eff ective Investigation andDocumentation of Torture and Other Cruel,Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentAppendix IV ...201Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedyand Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations ofInternational Human Rights Law and Serious Violationsof International Humanitarian Law


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781905592005
  • Publisher: DPI - Democratic Progress Institute
  • Publisher Imprint: Kurdish Human Rights Project
  • ISBN-10: 1905592000
  • Publisher Date: 29 Aug 2007
  • Binding: Paperback


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